Women's interest channel
A women's interest channel generally refers to either a television station, network or specialty channel that targets women as its main demographic; offering programs that will appeal to the female population.
There are two types of female interest channels: general interest and niche interest.
General interest
General interest women's channels are television channels that contain programming from various categories and genres that will appeal to the female population including films, lifestyle series, dramatic series, reality series, talk shows and more on varying topics including but not limited to cooking, travel, cars, sex, sports and more.
Examples of general interest female channels
- 2nd Avenue (Philippines)
- 9Gem (Australia)
- Big CBS Love (India, defunct)
- Cosmopolitan Television (Latin America)
- Cosmopolitan TV (Canada)
- Diva Universal (Asia)
- Divinity (Spain)
- Estil 9 (Catalonia)
- ETC (Philippines)
- Eve (Southeast Asia)
- Lifestyle (Philippines)
- Lifetime (USA)
- Living (UK)
- MOI&cie (Canada)
- Mya (Italy)
- Nova (Spain)
- Nueve (Spain)
- OWN (Canada)
- Oxygen (USA)
- Passion (Germany)
- Q (Philippines, defunct)
- SIC Mulher (Portugal)
- Sixx (Germany)
- Slice (Canada)
- STAR World (Asia)
- SoHo (Australia)
- Sony Channel (Southeast Asia)
- Téva (France)
- Twist TV (Canada)
- Velvet (Philippines, defunct)
- VH1 (USA)
- W Network (Canada)
Niche interest
Niche interest women's channels are television channels that contain programming with a specific television genre such as film channels, lifestyle channels, and more.